Abstract
People have made various relations between plants for every time or area. As a result, the vegetation and the local scene have been formed for every area. But, it is apprehensive about increase of a rural management abandonment place, and the fall of the biodiversity accompanying it in recent years. There is a Japanese lacquer producer who continues four generation in southern Yamizo Mountains. This study aimed to elucidate roles of the traditional plant resource utilization for conserving an indigenous rural landscape element, particularly semi-natural grasslands. We clarified the spatial distributions of woodlots for the lacquer tapping, habitat properties, management state and understory vegetation for this Japanese lacquer produce at an example. As a result, It was shifting to the landscape of large-scale woodlots for the lacquer tapping on a abandoned cultivated land from small-scale woodlots on the base of a mountain or a bank. However, the kind of many species of Miscanthetum sinensis-class is a growth cage as a good half-natural grassland in the habitat of a bank. That is, the difference had arisen in the composition of woodlots floor vegetation by the career of the land. And It was considered that those species richness decreasing when management abandonment progressed.
